OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Transferring Technical Knowledge to Turkey: American Engineers, Scientific Experts, and the Erzincan Earthquake of 1939	5
The cells of Robert Hooke: pores, fibres, diaphragms and the cell theory that wasn't	5
Theodolites at 20 000 feet: justifying precision measurement during the trigonometrical survey of Kashmir, 1855–1865	3
How to read ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’	3
Drawing muscles with diagrams: how a novel dissection cut inspired Nicolaus Steno's mathematical myology (1667)	3
Beyond the Nobel Prize: scientific recognition and awards in North America since 1900	3
The problem of ‘Extinguished letters’ and the use of chemical reagents on manuscripts (1551–1553)	2
‘Never so at home’: Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham	2
Cavendish on life	2
Enlightened female networks: gendered ways of producing knowledge (1720–1830)	2
The disputed sound of the aurora borealis: sensing liminal noise during the First and Second International Polar Years, 1882–3 and 1932–3	2
Mendel's closet: genetics, eugenics and the exceptions of sex in Edwardian Britain	2
Materialism, Lebenskraft and the limits of science: metaphysical vitalism in post-Kantian scenarios	2
Of stumps and stipes: comparisons between the cultures and identities of Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the turn of the twentieth century	1
The ‘Stronsay Beast’: testimony, evidence and authority in early nineteenth-century natural history	1
The life of matter: early modern vital matter theories	1
Emigration or return? International mobility and Theodore von Kármán's Chinese students and associates	1
The anecdotal patient: brain injury and the magnitude of harm	1
The 1919 eclipse results that verified general relativity and their later detractors: a story re-told	1
The historical power of the natural science collection of Dominik Bilimek at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)	1
Émigré neurophysiologists' situated knowledge economies and their roles in forming international cultures of scientific excellence	1
The benefits of ‘slow’ development: towards a best practice for sustainable technical infrastructure through the Davy Notebooks Project	1
The origins and development of free-electron lasers in the UK	1
Ornithological insights from Taylor White's birds	1
The intertwined history of non-human primate health and human medicine at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute	1

The cells of Robert Hooke: wombs, brains and ammonites	1
Introduction: Cabinet, elaboratory, gallery 1500–1800. The preservation of art and material culture in Europe	1
Introduction: Undescrib'd: Taylor White (1701–1772) and his collections	1
Moving scientific knowledge from the laboratory to the theatre: Humphry Davy's Lecture practice at the Royal Institution, 1801–1812	1
Protean Forms in Humphry Davy's Notebooks	1
From philanthropy to business: the economics of Royal Society journal publishing in the twentieth century	1
Mary Proctor: an astronomical popularizer in the shadows	1
The visualization of unknown animals. Aesthetics of natural history in Perrault's Description anatomique , Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium	1
‘A man of intrigue’: Giles Rawlins, 1631?–1662	1
Taylor White's ‘paper museum’	1
‘Obliging and curious’: Taylor White (1701–1772) and his remarkable collections	1
Madame Lavoisier and the others: women in Marie-Anne Paulze-Lavoisier's network (1771–1836)	1
Taylor White's ‘paper museum’ (1725–1772): understanding the scientific work of an unpublished naturalist	1
Introduction: Diversifying the historiography of bacteriophages	1
Mind the step: did Hooker's judgement clinch Darwin's disenchantment?	1
Maritime crossroads: the knowledge pursuits of María de Betancourt (Tenerife, 1758–1824) and Joana de Vigo (Menorca, 1779–1855)	1
David Gregory's manuscript ‘Isaaci Neutoni Methodus fluxionum’ (1694): A study on the early publication of Newton's discoveries on calculus	1
Redhead, Paroissien, Parish & Co.: British Field Science in early Independent RÍo de la Plata	1
Lemurs before Lemur : depictions of captive lemurs prior to Linnaeus	1
Introduction: theorizing and applying the meaningfully anecdotal patient in neurodiversity research	1
The Boutelou Brothers: From Gardening to Agronomic Practices, Education, and Travels in Spain at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century	1
Two Nobel laureates in conversation: Robert Robinson listens to Dorothy Hodgkin's account of her life scientific	1
Preserving nature: domestic thrift and techniques of conservation in early modern England	1
Editorial	1
Fruitful collaborations: the Taylor White project in the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection	1
Unity in bronze: German universities and the 250th anniversary of the Royal Society	1
Afterword: Phage, history and historiography	1
The instruments of expeditionary science and the reworking of nineteenth-century magnetic experiment	1